James Yates released only served 5 years

Blues Harp · April 19, 2014

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-man-who-armed-rhys-7008384

Can't believe this.....what a slap in the face for Rhys's parents to see this piece of scum back on the streets again. He'll be back to his old ways and regarded as a "hero" by his fellow scum gang mates - all supposed "hard men " when they have guns or knives but cowards on their own. Words just fail me - these people need to be locked away to do their full sentence. Sorry but hope someone has a quiet word with him in a dark alley

NSNO_Phil_1878 · April 19, 2014

These are serious scumbags, though.

Deleted member 28206 · April 19, 2014

5 years for handling a illegal firearm, and death by proxy of a child.

FTY · April 19, 2014

Fuming.

Honestly that is an absolute joke.

Brennan · April 19, 2014

I can only hope he spends the rest of his life thinking about the damage he did to his community and Rhys' family, however unlikely that may be.

blueser · April 19, 2014

Horrible for the fAmily the skinny little <removed> smirked his way through the trial

BlueLlama · April 20, 2014

The same semtence you get for abstracting electricty. I despair

Rook · April 20, 2014

Just wow. WTF Britian?

Jags..class · April 20, 2014

It went from 7 years to 12 years, then got out after 5 years. Our Justice system is poor.

Tubey · April 20, 2014

Rook said:
Just wow. WTF Britian?

It's actually rare that a sentence reflects a crime over here, unless you do something really horrendous like avoid paying council tax.

Anyone involved in supplying a firearm which leads to the death of somebody should face a mandatory life sentence IMO, but it'll never happen.

magicjuan · April 20, 2014

The laws in this country reflect the priority of its lawmakers and politicians, they are there to protect profit and property. If this bell had supplied a firearm involved in a robbery he would have got longer.
The people and protecting the innocent are of no concern to those in power, never have, never will.

Groucho · April 20, 2014

This is why no one has any pride in this country anymore.

Criminals can do whatever want as long as the government gets paid.

I'll not start a rant.

Steve0 · April 20, 2014

Rook said:
Just wow. WTF Britian?

Tbf, selling guns to murderers is legal in America...

Steve0 · April 20, 2014

Tubey said:
It's actually rare that a sentence reflects a crime over here, unless you do something really horrendous like avoid paying council tax.

Anyone involved in supplying a firearm which leads to the death of somebody should face a mandatory life sentence IMO, but it'll never happen.

Drug offences seem to get massively disproportionate sentences. Well that depends on your view on drugs I guess, but compared with other sentences they always seem out of line.